A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.



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A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
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He was just a fun-loving guy. He never hurt anybody.
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I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Secon...
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I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer th...
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He was never the same after he hurt his arm. That is a shame.
LEE PELEKOUDAS
I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.
DAVID ORTIZ
I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.
BRIGITTE BARDOT
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, tak...
ELI BROAD
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
SALVADOR DALI
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
SALVADOR DALí
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
SALVADOR DALí
I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'
What's that?'
I...tru...
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DALE CLINE
Clarence Hurt was driving, and he got lost. “Does anyone know where the Post Office Building is?�...
BRYAN BURROUGH
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II...
AL PACINO
ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to ...
NICOLE KRAUSS
I learn to trust someone I love..
I learn to deal with heartbreak..
I learn to forgive him...
TOBA BETA
I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.
SEAN YOUNG
The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
PENN JILLETTE
We would never be able to afford a $38,000-a-year education. I am doing something I love while getti...
DEANDRA DOYLEY
If you say that you'd never hurt anybody,
you're lack of emphaty and full of bullshit.
TOBA BETA
I know he would never hurt anybody unless he was protecting Tony. But I'm thankful that his life's s...
ANN JOHNSON
Not during any pre-college career did I ever have anybody who was a faculty member talk about Plan B...
DENNIS JACOBS
Learn the truth...never assume.
Understand the plight...never judge.
Put yourself in someo...
KEMI SOGUNLE
He never said no to anybody because there was always a way to work it out. You have no idea how many...
DONNA LITTLE
What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely...
P.J. O'ROURKE
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a colleg...
JOHN DRYDEN
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college....
ALBERT EINSTEIN
you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I&#...
VICTORIA JACKSON
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We are looking for anybody who is willing, enthusiastic and who has a thirst for it.
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ZACHARY KNIGHTON
There was a very cautious man
Who never laughed or played
He never risked, he never tried,...
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
MARK TWAIN
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit...
BROOKS ATKINSON
Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody
STEPHEN KING
I've always been interested in photography, but I never really got into it until last year after I t...
ANDREW LAPISKA
In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster
was a st...
URSULA K. LE GUIN
It’s an alien.”

“Sand crab,” Leon said. “It won’t hurt you.”

“...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
Y...
RICHARD LEIGH
He's got a great background, and he's willing to learn. He was professional all the way, and that wa...
DAN PILGRIM
He made it clear from the get-go that he didn't want to hurt anybody.
JEFF BERMAN
I felt really bad. It was probably the worst feeling I've had on a shot. I was just happy nobody got...
DAVE KELLY
He was willing to take his skills and fight for the little guy, and I don't think that hurt him when...
JEANNE MIGNON
The little boy who never grew up,
He trapped the frog and kills the rat,
He flew a kite, t...
QUETZAL
I honestly sent out letters to every possible college to get my name out. I thought maybe I would ma...
DANI LOUGHEED
And he said, “The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire of it.”

KAHLIL GIBRAN
They obviously have not caught anybody. They have got the car. They know who it belongs to. He did n...
JUAN TALANCON
It sure is ugly.”
“Ugly, never hurt a thing.”
I scoffed. “Oh, ugly has hurt some ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE
Ironically, it was back at the Prince William County Fair a couple of years after my first entry tha...
CHRIS GOODGION
You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE
I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am."
His thumb stroked her...
TESSA DARE
They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.
RONALD REAGAN
I've always wanted to be a coach; I never wanted to play basketball professionally. I happened to ge...
RICK BRUNSON
Emma:“He broke your heart! How can you call it love when he
hurt you so badly?”
Kellan...
JAY ASHER
You okay?"
"Fine."
"Your heart's beating really fast."
"Gee, thanks. That's very comf...
RACHEL CAINE
Broad-Based Education:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy ins...
GEORGE BEAHM
I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he di...
PATTI DAVIS
I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno...
NANCY MEYERS
It'll take some discipline, but I'm willing to give it a try. I know high school is setting the foun...
KYLE PETERSON
Rip was aggressive early. And once he got it cooking, we kept going to him and we fed off him. When ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS
Got your text,” he said when I climbed out. “How much did it hurt?”
“Not at all,” I s...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to r...
AARON TVEIT
Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Cha...
ROALD DAHL
He was not anything like what was portrayed to me by several people. ... What I found was a young ma...
HUE JACKSON
I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a...
JOHN KRASINSKI
If you never love you never hurt
If you never hurt you've never lived.
Love in life and em...
SOPHIA NAM
I was going to do that regardless of whether he got hurt or not. That's how I approach this. Ever si...
ROBERT FERGUSON
He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right."
"Who is Mark?"
"A silly little boy who ...
HILARY MANTEL
I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in ...
HEATHER DUBROW
I wasn't really worried about the first knockdown, ... That was a flash knockdown. But I saw him on ...
JEFF FENECH
When it happened I was scared. All I could think of was Brian Williams [ex-Giant center] who lost hi...
MICHAEL STRAHAN
Anybody who wants to be President, you should right away say, "I don't want to hear that guy anymore...
NOAM CHOMSKY
The judge got down on his knees, and he prayed to God, he, Jemubhai Popatlal the agnostic, who had m...
KIRAN DESAI
They took us out of our offense, and that hurt us. After that, we never got in sync.
KATHY CLARK
I think we could play against anybody who has ever played in college football,
DON JAMES
She loves swimming,” said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college.
Ellen...
DANIEL AMORY
You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.'

I though...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
William Jordan was a retired professor in the college of education who became well known during his ...
DORSEY SERGENT
A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a g...
RICHARD WIDMARK
It was nothing. Right after that happened he looked at me and said, 'That didn't hurt me. I just did...
GEORGES LARAQUE
I just don't understand why anyone would want to hurt him. He was a good man. He just got sick, got ...
DANNY YOUNG
My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always ...
MICHAEL FRANTI
I never knew love, until I was willing to die for it.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
A chance for 40 acres and a mule after, after reconstruction it never got, had never got done.
CHRIS MATTHEWS
I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando t...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
Maybe that would be a good thing to do.

He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him m...
EMILY VEINGLORY
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I reali...
DICK CAVETT
If a good man can't sleep after hurting people,
then he should learn much more to be a leader.
TOBA BETA
He was a person who knew exactly what he wanted to do and was willing to make the sacrifice to do it...
BETH FRY
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestlin...
DAN GABLE
those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers ...
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